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So when I first heard the announcement that you were going to write a story in that nebulous in between period that encircled Prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance, I couldn’t help but imagine and worry how you would let me down.
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There are only about eight characters in your original series that you imagined as characters of color – and no, claiming that Hermione was left ambiguous on purposes and her racebending about a decade after your last Harry Potter book was released doesn’t count – and most of them don’t have anything resembling backstories or personalities. I know that now and it’s a serious cause for worry. The Harry Potter series just isn’t diverse. Then, I heard that it would be set in 1920s New York and I worried.
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I had owned a copy of the original book as a kid and wasn’t sure how you’d get a movie out of a bestiary. When I heard that your wizarding world would be returning to the big screen with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, I was tentatively excited.
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The oppression in your world is so limited that it always made me worry that you didn’t understand intersections of identity and how people could be oppressed one way and privileged in another. Normally, I’m down for a good allegory, but you don’t provide us with anything else. Creatures who weren’t human or largely humanoid weren’t allowed to use magic and humans that came from the non-magical world (your muggles) were discriminated against just as much as non-magical humans who came from the wizarding world (your squibs). All of the racism in your world existed along a magical/not magical axis, focusing on essentially who had the right to be magical and who was less worthy because of blood. How about the fact that only Grindlewald and Dumbledore are queer in your series? More so, you didn’t even reveal that in the text, but as an afterthought that you later expanded upon (but not by much). While Molly was described as plump, the only other fat woman onscreen was Umbridge who was awful, but maybe not awful enough to deserve the torture you put her through offscreen by the centaurs. I don’t believe that disabled women existed either. And yes, you created Hermione, a character who was heralded as the brightest witch of her generation.īut then out of all the women in your series, only two or three were reoccurring women of color.
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You created Molly Weasley, who saw Harry as another one of her sons and loved him no matter what. You created Narcissa Malfoy who lied to Voldemort to his face in order to protect her only son. You created Ginny who was fun and a badass who basically got her happily ever after with her high school sweetheart. You got so much praise for the women you wrote, but aside from my own headcanons about Hermione’s implicit blackness, only a handful of your women were like me. It was before I moved to Florida and before I knew that there was a certain kind of magic that really only existed in books like yours.Īs a small child, I didn’t notice how poor your portrayals of people of color were or how lacking all forms of representation were. I can’t remember exactly how old I was the first time I read a Harry Potter book I was either nine or ten years old. Part passive aggressive stress valve, part honest attempt at expressing my continuous frustration with JKR, this first post for Letters to the Author is me at my grouchiest.